On the areas of cyclic and semicyclic polygons

DOI10.1016/J.AAM.2004.09.008MaRDI QIDQ2483906zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors F. Miller Maley, David P. Robbins, Julie Roskies

Publication date 1 August 2005

Published in Advances in Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0407300

zbMATH Keywords

areahomogeneous polynomialssymmetric functionscyclic polygonssemicyclic polygons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Length, area, volume and convex sets (aspects of convex geometry) (52A38) Length, area and volume in real or complex geometry (51M25)

Abstract: We investigate the ``generalized Heron polynomial that relates the squared area of an n-gon inscribed in a circle to the squares of its side lengths. For a (2m+1)-gon or (2m+2)-gon, we express it as the defining polynomial of a certain variety derived from the variety of binary (2m-1)-forms having m-1 double roots. Thus we obtain explicit formulas for the areas of cyclic heptagons and octagons, and illuminate some mysterious features of Robbins' formulas for the areas of cyclic pentagons and hexagons. We also introduce a companion family of polynomials that relate the squared area of an n-gon inscribed in a circle, one of whose sides is a diameter, to the squared lengths of the other sides. By similar algebraic techniques we obtain explicit formulas for these polynomials for all n <= 7.

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